In 2008 or 2009, at an early stage of an extensive research program on criminal defense lawyers in China, I…
Freedom struggles of China’s Christian rights lawyers
religion
Competing narratives of the “us” in “our culture and heritage”
Although 19.3 million people reported a Christian affiliation in the 2021 Canadian census (representing just over half of the Canadian…
National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion
This forum draws together scholars of religion, nationalism, and secularism with research expertise in North America, the Middle East, Europe,…
Asian American Buddhists: To heathenry and beyond
As a demographic that continues to be marked with the scarlet letter of heathenry, Asian American Buddhists demonstrate the nuanced…
US politics beyond white conservatives: Asian American evangelicals and the religiously unaffiliated
A focus on Asian Americans opens new avenues of study when it comes to race, religion, and politics. I focus…
No one’s model minority
Race and religion create powerful and intertwined systems of othering, and attending to the experiences of Asian Americans and Asians…
Capabilities of old women
The old women cannot be relegated to the past or overcome. Their relationship to scholarship is asymmetrical: the old women’s…
Al-Juwayni, al-Ghazali, and Talal Asad on the religion of the old women of Nishapur
Several texts prompted the forum on the religion of the old women of Nishapur. To give readers the ability to…
The religion of the old women of Nishapur
As a hadith or as a trope, the expression “the religion of the old women” (dīn al-ʿajāʾiz) appears in many…
Crystal ball gazers, dream books, and the occult
In the face of ubiquitous inequalities and anti-Black violence, spiritual cultivation became paramount to African Americans’ emotional survival and stability…